Word: behind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flew off to join Frankel in Rome on June 18. She felt sorry for him, she claims. He had sounded desperate when he called her from his Rome hideout, terrified of being alone, eager to engage in idle chat and already growing nostalgic for the life he had left behind. He had grown wistful, coming to realize that there was no returning to his Greenwich mansion and the financial Xanadu he had created...
...biggest debates on bioethics tend to be triggered by oddballs? In early 1998, eccentric physicist Richard Seed ignited a furor when he vowed to clone a human being. (He hasn't been heard from since.) Now comes Ron Harris--fashion photographer, soft-core-porn videographer and the entrepreneurial mind behind such Web ventures as Eros Entertainment Inc. Harris' latest idea: a sexy, come-hither website called Ron's Angels that intends to auction off the eggs of beautiful models...
...granting health insurance. "This will legalize unprecedented and Orwellian surveillance of the daily lives of bank customers," asserts the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, one of many consumer groups demanding that Congress kill--or Clinton veto--the bill. The industry says this is all overblown, and lawmakers behind the bill note that specific points in the legislation require full disclosure of any information sharing that will...
...perception, if not the reality, of vote buying remains. In this chart, TIME reviews some of the issues of the session that is about to wrap up--and the interests, and the soft money, behind them...
...next thing you do is find out why the company failed to meet expectations. If you read anything about accounting irregularities being behind the disappointment, then you pick up the phone, or go to your computer, and turn that unrealized loss into a realized loss, pronto. My rule is simple: companies nailed or fessing up for bogus numbers can't be owned. Many never come back. Waste Management, HBO McKesson, Sunbeam--these were all worth booting the moment the accounting problems surfaced. Don't try to rationalize or waffle. Just...